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Ensuring safety and health at work
Oped, Published on 26/04/2024
» Climate change is having serious impacts on the safety and health of workers in the Asia-Pacific region.
Sri Lanka's dangerous debt crisis
Oped, Published on 20/09/2023
» More than a year after the mass protest movement known as the Aragalaya ousted Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankans have once again taken to the streets.
The lethal price of sweatshop development
Oped, Published on 19/05/2023
» It has been ten years since an eight-storey commercial building housing several textile factories on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed on April 24, 2013. The collapse of Rana Plaza claimed the lives of 1,134 people and severely injured 2,000 more, most of them women.
Anti-China outrage pulls Beijing into Myanmar coup crisis
Published on 17/03/2021
» Chinese factories torched as mainland workers hunker down under martial law -- Beijing is being pulled into the ulcerous crisis in Myanmar, an unravelling country it had carefully stitched into its big plans for Asia.
Pandemic shows need for food philantrophy
Oped, Published on 24/11/2020
» AUNG WIN Most people in Myanmar may not be familiar with the name James Beard. First and foremost, he was a great humanitarian. He became a legend in the food world against all odds. A year after his death, a former student launched a foundation in his honour. Since 1990, the foundation has given out annual awards including book awards, journalism awards and broadcast media awards. In 2018, the James Beard Foundation changed the award's rules to be more inclusive, to fight race and gender disparities.
Poorest hit hard as virus brings society to its knees
News, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 27/03/2020
» After a long wait, the government has finally come up with relief packages to ease the plight of business operators and those losing their jobs due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
EU sends Hun Sen a sharp message
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 17/02/2020
» The European Commission's announcement last week of the partial suspension of Cambodia's duty- and quota-free access to European Union (EU) markets deals a blow to both the Hun Sen government and his country's economy given the EU is Cambodia's largest trading partner.
Hun Sen must take heed
News, Editorial, Published on 14/02/2020
» In his quest for absolute control and to prolong his stay in power, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has turned the country into a de facto one-party state and prepared his eldest son for a dynastic succession. This quest has been pursued at the cost of his people's political and civil rights.
Hun Sen's actions forcing EU's hand
News, Published on 29/01/2020
» As the European Commission is in the final month of a 12-month review of its trade preferences for Cambodia under its Everything But Arms (EBA) programme, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has thrown down the gauntlet to the EU by putting Kem Sokha, the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party's (CNRP) current president, on trial for treason.
Cambodia can swing Asean-EU ties
News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 17/12/2019
» As the host of the upcoming 13th Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem) next November, Cambodia could be by default the catalyst that will define the future of Asean-EU relations -- for better or worse. At this juncture, it is a toss-up because the EU is contemplating various measures to reprimand Cambodia for its political oppression, land grabbing and disrespect of the human rights of politicians, labour unions, media and farmers. Rubbing salt into the wounds, Cambodia with its close friendship with China has added an extra-thick layer of anxieties among the EU strategists.